Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 18:45:05 -0700 From: ulairi <ulairi@ulairi.org> To: David Loszewski <drlski@attbi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem with startup, need help ASAP Message-ID: <1022636705.3cf432a196c42@balrog.moria.csun.edu> In-Reply-To: <3CF43D87.8050401@attbi.com> References: <3CF43D87.8050401@attbi.com>
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Quoting David Loszewski <drlski@attbi.com>:
> if I hit return that brings me into single-user mode I think but none of
> the drives are mounted so I don't have any commands like the vi command
> or ee command to edit the fstab file. What is the file supposed to look
> like in the fstab and how would I edit it if I can't edit it?
>
> Dave
fsck should be available.
Also, try "mount -a" - this will attempt to mount what it can based
on /etc/fstab. This may bring in enough of a toolset (/usr/bin, et cetera) for
you do more.
If not, dump out /etc/fstab and start running fsck against those partitions.
If the system is so horribly messed up that you do not even have "mount"
or "ls", you have, realistically, only 3 options.
1) Try to salvage the system by getting to some utilites. If "ls" is not
avilable, most shells will let you do stuff like "for i in *; do echo $i;
done" - poor man's ls
2) Whip out the install CD set, boot from the install CD, get into the
emergency shell, start fixing things that way
3) FSCK gives up, you have a full-blown-bar-none hardware failure... replace
hardware, restore from backups (you *do* have backups, right?)
--
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of excellence. Nor is it the true acme of excellence when you win and the whole
empire says, "Well done!". True excellence is to plan secretly, to move
surreptitiously, to foil the enemy's plans and to balk his schemes, so that at
the end, the day is won without shedding a drop of blood.
Sun Tzu, The Art of War. [6th Century. B.C.E.]"
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